skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back then, looking native was the most important thing. Today it seems electron apps can get away with looking anything but native - so perhaps it’s time to resurrect some other desktop frameworks (I just recently started working with JavaFX and I really like it so far. Unfortunate that it is so niche)
Depends on the system. If it was old, or the release date was a while back, you might need to do it anyway.

Many Linux distributions do it as a matter of course to ensure it's actually possible to regenerate and that it's up to date. At that point, you start to question the necessity of embedding it in the first place given that its primary consumers don't care.
It's probably not a good idea to buy reddit when you're losing your shirt just in hopes of turning it around in the short term. The momentum is already there for the short.

Instead hedge funds will learn from this example and get smarter about using and manipulating social media. I wouldn't be surprised if they start leading secret PR campaigns to start trends like this on reddit--screw their competitors and make a lot of money.

Why try to swim upstream when it's so much easier to make money swimming with the current?

And why buy social media when you can just manipulate it anonymously?
‘We have a fire in the cockpit ’ Apollo 1 disaster 50 years later (Jan 27, 2017)
It's odd that they say it only creates 35 jobs. Then why is it so expensive? Seems like if it is so expensive, that will create, if not jobs, lots of person-hours of work, which is effectively jobs. Ok, so the jobs may be out of the country, such as manufacturers of equipment, but still. It takes labor to make it happen, and that is jobs.

I'm not one to advocate for doing things just to create jobs, but that statement seemed disingenuous.
Why Netflix, Hulu, Disney and Amazon Don't Want You Watching TV Alone
The downvotes are because “If they grow revenue by 1000% and don’t improve efficiency then...”.

That is a fundamentally unsound premise.

They expect to grow at 50% CAGR which means 1000% in about 6 years. Which in and of itself would be an insane growth trajectory to achieve at this scale.

But at the end of those same 6 years you would reasonably need to model some significant efficiency improvements.

Tesla has predicted their battery costs, for example, will be reduced by 50% in that time frame.

There will also be significant efficiencies achieved elsewhere in the manufacturing line beyond just their tech roadmap for structural batteries, but certainly I would assume not quite a full halving of the cost to produce the entire car.
Compounding this is Robinhood's execution. Back in March 2020, the whole market plunged, and some Robinhood traders were unable to complete their trades in a timely manner.

Will Robinhood's systems and procedures work flawlessly on Friday? My guess is no. We'll find out.
It sounds like the structural typing in Typescript might help a lot here - you don’t need to formally define any types for a record, the language just infers and tracks fields/types for you. I don’t know what the current state of data science is for TS though.
Couldn't they close their position and still have the short interest go up because of other investors opening new positions?

If these institutions are going on record as closing their positions, when they actually havent, aren't they committing some sort of fraud?
I think the inability to repair Apple products is right on par with the rest of the industry really. My Samsung mobile phone is just as difficult to repair as an iPhone.

Also, when it comes to computers (I use a Mac), there is also another factor. Apple devices may be difficult (and expensive) to repair, but they are certainly popular, which means one can find plenty of online resources or even spare parts, where applicable. And, one can actually find a local store that repairs Macs and take the computer there, if throwing money at the problem is an option.

Quite recently, I came across a case of a Lenovo laptop whose user had somehow activated bitlocker and forgot the password. Wasn't interested in the files, they just wanted to be able to use the computer again. I tried to find a way to reinstall the operating system and, I kid you not, there was literally no obvious way to boot normally from a usb device nor Lenovo provides any meaningful documentation or, Heaven forbid, the boot image to reinstall. It was actually kind of difficult to even determine the model of the device, as there have been several generations with the same name, each with a different processor and efi firmware. It was almost as if the model never existed.

We can laugh all we want for Apple's expensive and un-repairable devices, but the above nightmare cannot happen in the Apple ecosystem. You can even get the device to an apple store and they'll happily take your money and fix your device (if it's not severely damaged of course). This is not unique to Apple, e.g. Dell has excellent support and documentation. But this is a quality that is very important and yet it is often overlooked.
I generally agree.

One difference is that Quicklisp + ASDF often needs to be set up manually which can be a little bit more complicated (it is, however, contained in Debian as a package, for example).

Leiningen and Maven relay on version numbers for dependencies.

My understanding is that Quicklisp in practice uses a "rolling release" model similar to Arch Linux - you get a current distribution, where all packages are at their newest version, and if needed, one can also roll back to earlier versions of the whole distribution. That this works with elegance is related to one aspect of Common Lisp culture which is very, very different from, say, Python or Go: Common Lisp puts a lot of importance on backward compatibility and stable APIs, it is possibly the most backward-compatible of all dynamic languages.

Further, while Leiningen is a de facto standard which makes working with Clojure libraries essentially frictionles, Quicklist is just one modern way of multiple ways to include Common Lisp libraries.

This difference is owed to the trait that Common Lisp is much more an open system (which I consider a good thing), while Clojure is more uniform and "managed".
Did you try saying no, that you weren't comfortable with this solution, and you'd like to discuss other options? You can always discuss what options are available with your doctor and then reach out to your insurance to see what and why they will do about it. You may not get the answer you want, and it will use up a lot of your time, but it is an option.

Note: I've spent on the order of 30 hours on the phone over the past couple months trying to get things sorted out between my doctor, my insurance, and the provider of the drug that I need for my vision. The folks at the insurance can't always help, but they've always been willing to discuss things and see what they _can_ do.
“ Nor should they need to.”

It’s funny - I’d expect an interior designer to know something about the limitations of the materials they work with.

Why don’t we expect this of digital designers?
I would say it's more than a hope. Any trader whose strategy is closer to optimal will have larger profits over time and come to own a larger and larger fraction of the market. Though saying that out loud makes me realize optimal doesn't have to mean buying and selling according to true value. Optimal would in fact be predicting the behavior of other participants and trading off those predictions. I still think certain events ground value though: bankruptcies, mergers, and dividends attach a real cost/gain to holding a stock.
All the biggest insurers in the US own their own PBM. The profit margins are shown in the 10-K filings.

All the insurers have profit margins in the 3% to 5% range. Where is all this extra profit that the middlemen are making?

Even if the PBM division is earning more profit than others, it's simply offsetting losses elsewhere.
What VB should have done was have an optional "utility band" or the like on a screen on which to place the invisible widgets.
You can still buy AMC on Robinhood. I just did.
I wish Musk/Bezos/Branson et al would spend their billions on colossal space telescopes rather than Mars vanity projects. Imagine being able to image the surface of an exoplanet...
The argv += optind; is a standard pattern. I have never considered argc=0 case to be possible. I need to read some more on this.

As for your second find. It already got fixed: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=161176698927944&w=2
Once people started building with cars in mind here, they were building single family detached houses. Most apartments, duplexes, 4-plexes, etc. were built in the era of streetcars.

We do have some multifamily from the postwar era, but it tends to be either very luxe (contemporary gentrification) or very crappy (from when cities were for poor people). The stately, comfortable, once-grand-but-now-middle-class stock is all pre-automobile.
> Our economy is like a town with 1 farmer and 9 investors who spend all day wagering with each other on whether the farmer will have a good crop.

Objectively, that's not true. The finance industry is under 10% of GDP and under 5% of jobs.
Apple Now Has over 1bn Active iPhones Worldwide, 1.65bn Total Devices
I'm really unclear on the line between "science fiction" words and...words.

"Light-year" is here, citing Asimov in the 1950s, but Wikipedia notes that Germans were already complaining about the unit's name in the 1850s.

Then look at the adjective "avian," defined as "(of an alien) bird-like." Avian's already an English adjective meaning bird-like. You can also call an alien "tall" and that doesn't make tall a science fiction word.

What're the rules of this thing?
Apple Financial Results – Q1 2021
Either mobile data access or internet access should be, yes. You need one of those to access the job market today (among other critical services). Smartphones have become so cheap that they are most people (especially those in lower socioeconomic brackets) only computing device, and having a phone number is also a prerequisite for society, so mobile data access is the common way to gain internet access for a large swathe of society.

This is a global phenomenon too (and even more so in other countries).
Facebook's margin is even better, 46% on Q4 revenue of $28B.

Of course Microsoft's income is more diversified while FB's revenue is almost entirely ads (other revenue was $885M, mostly from Oculus Quest 2).
> Would the government rouse itself to negotiate prices with manufacturers, like it does in the developed world?

Well... the previous occupant of the White House tried to do exactly that and was struck down by the courts.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fierce-pharma-politics-j...
There’s really no good solution for problems like this that don’t make someone upset.

Tesla wants to profit off the fruit of their labor and extract some value from their product that is providing value to others and fund its development. It also is used as a sales vector since their charging network is a huge selling point for their cars.

Consumers don’t want to be stuck with two standards for no reason other than corporate politics and pay higher prices via those licensing fees. Or be locked out from certain charging stations just because of the model of their car.

And other automakers don’t want to be put at a competitive disadvantage because they have little choice but have to license the tech from Tesla.

And the world doesn’t want to put up with having to duplicate the massive human effort of setting up a charging network n times just because of corporate politics.

I always thought this was the basically the perfect situation for gov’t to step in and “fix” the market by just funding the development of the charging technology and providing it to all automakers for free/at cost so everyone gets the best charger on the cheap.
The evil hedge funds will start rolling out the astroturf and making money off of these campaigns.

I wouldn't be surprised if the GME thing is astroturf already.
And the share price inevitably falls in after hours trading. Seems shareholders had even more optimistic expectations than analysts.
In the US I've had this happen for a generic.

The pharmacist told me that they were having a hard time confirming my insurance. After a ridiculously long delay, I asked how much the drug was to pay for out of pocket... It was $12. My copay was $10 anyway. So both the pharmacist and I wasted a lot of time and hassle trying to save me $2.
You could look at Gitea. I switched from GitLab and find it’s a better fit for me. GitLab is probably better for large teams, but it’s bloated and overpriced for small developers IMO.
Zero-Offload: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Models on a Single GPU
Most of them are.
That's what people here aren't getting: These people have a point they're making and feel like making themselves heard is a decent use of some spare change.
I'm sure individual experiences vary widely, but I know several people getting frequent treatment for chronic conditions, and none of them talk about how happy they are that an insurance company is collectively bargaining on their behalf. Most of them curse their insurance provider with every breath, and are firmly of the opinion that it would shoot them in the head if it thought it could get away with it.
I’ve worked on ML across several large e-commerce firms, and two patterns I have seen along the lines of your comment:

1. many organizations dismiss ML solutions without actually trying them. Rather, if one hack week style prototype doesn’t work on the first try, it’s chalked up to “over hyped AI” and never sees the light of day. Organizations that succeed with ML don’t do it that way. Instead they ensure the success criteria are stated up front and measured throughout, so you can see why it didn’t work and iterate for v2 and v3. “We spent a bunch of R&D expense on magic bullet v0 and it didn’t succeed immediately” is a leadership and culture problem - you probably can’t succeed with ML until you fix that.

2. Many companies have no idea how to staff and support ML teams, and go through various cycles of either taking statistical researchers and bogging them down with devops or taking pure backend engineers and letting them do unprofessional hackery with no clarifying product quality ML expert in the loop.

You need a foundation of ML operations / infra support that cleanly separates the responsibilities of devops away from the responsibilities of model research, and you must invest in clear data platform tools that facilitate getting data to these teams.

If an org just figures they can throw an ML team sink or swim into an existing devops environment or they can require an ML team to sort out their own data access, it’s setting ML up for disaster - and again you’ll get a lot of cynics rushing to say it’s failing because ML is just hype, when actually it’s failing due to poor leadership, poor team structure and poor resourcing.
At the top of my list is "The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient."
I find it an easy guide for developing resilience, which is necessary to go through the world's crisis.
> Not related to the article but what exactly is "open" about OpenAI?

Microsoft's checkbook?
> And theoretically talented grads would make great teaching assistants, but those are exactly the people who get much better jobs so they end up with students who struggled through the program "teaching" the next couple cohorts.

You nailed it.

It's the complete opposite of someone who was a TA during undergrads.
Meant 2020Q1, updated. I know the base level M1s were constantly unavailable locally.
https://archive.is/EYZrh
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

This is a CNN article, not a source for numbers on cases in the region. It's extremely hard to draw any conclusions from this.

> The number of burials carried out by victims of Covid-19 in Manaus, in January this year, exceeded the data for 2020 for the city. Last year, 1,285 burials from the disease were counted, against 1,333 in the first 21 days of 2021 alone.

The "first wave" happened starting in ~May 2020 (and testing increased across the year) so this kind of un-normalized comparison across time periods isn't useful.

> The total made in January for all statements (all types of death, including coronavirus), was 2,964 - the highest number of burials carried out in a single month since the start of the pandemic. In 2020, the month with the highest burial record in Manaus was April, with 2,433.

This is a great example of bad data reporting: it's almost impossible to interpret this without comparison to historical mortality trends for the region. It sounds like mortality is slightly higher overall, but it's really difficult to say.

> Last year, May was the month that registered the most burials due to the disease, with 348. In comparison with this year's numbers, January 2021 brings 283% more burial records.

Again, same issue as the first quote: making a non-normalized comparison to May 2020 ignores the substantial increases in testing that has happened since that time.
Moral Character in Public Leadership
> But I hope you agree that this would be really nice.

Black boxes with tons of magic are great if you need to do exactly that one thing that creators had in mind. When you need it to work a little bit different you're usually either just out of luck, or the added flexibility makes whole api very complex (and usually buggy, as it goes hand in hand). It's just super hard to make things very high-level and simple, while still flexible enough.

Having a number of simpler functionalities that you're free to compose any way you like is for me preferred approach anytime. Most of the things that you mention can be solved with fairly simple wrapper libs doing just one thing (tracking state of connection, tracking errors, batching requests, etc.). Perhaps not in a perfectly reusable way, but good enough to allow easy recycling from project to project, and it's way easier to use and debug and adjust than if we had one huge built-in service object to handle it all.
I'm unable to watch any of them, only the first few seconds loads. Hopefully they can improve because this is terrible
I used "serious psoriasis" when I should have used "severe psoriasis". If your psoriasis is treatable with steroids and methotrexate, it isn't all that severe.

But psoriasis wasn't the point. Expensive treatment that's expected to be ongoing is.
> Were I them, I would worry a lot about battery wear-and-tear, undeclared damage, and even internal component substitution.

A car battery can definitely carry its own anti tamper mechanism and an LTE modem to report issues. Besides... a car battery isn't actually worth 15k$ to a thief. Not much to part out (PCBs are custom, casing ain't gonna fetch much in terms of scrap metal, and there's not much of a market for used li-ion 18650's with the exception of ecig hobbyists so swapping them out for lower quality isn't worth the effort), if it's an exclusively rent model there is no market for a stolen pack.

Wear and tear also isn't that much of an issue as Tesla proved.
Probably managed to route some IP through Ireland
> will have no idea how terrible their code performs on slower devices

You can (and should) monitor page load performance... using JS
Now that’s just being petty with stats. You knew I was talking about the majority of Americans not the richest. Sure if you take the arithmetic average of assets it will come out very high. But that’s because the millionaires and billionaires skew the numbers.
Looks like it. I never implied that it was automatic, but it’s the details that will make/break the case, if it were to go to court.

Even the social media
choices may be subject, because it may depend largely on how the employer perceived it at the time.
Better Perl with subroutine signatures and type validation
You're forgetting the stock is 125% over shorted. There literally isn't enough stock for shorts to cover their current positions. That's why there is potential for infinite, (huge) gains as long as everyone holds.
A couple thoughts come to mind, the first of which is that this seems like an unfortunate head start on the next burn season. To the extent these are still burning as things warm up and thaw, I assume they start to significantly spread and grow.
You spelled it wrong!

Ruby’s approach is the most delightful, I find. elf is an instance of Elf and in elf.health, self is the elf.

Elf is an instance of Class and in Elf.surpass, self is the Elf class itself.
Oh, right. I never thought about those possibilities. They probably should investigate that stuff.
Is it supposed to work in Firefox? I've allowed all the scripts to run in FF 78.7, but there's an empty screen after pressing "play". There's a lot of errors in the web browser console though, mostly CORS ones. And the following: "Uncaught TypeError: CanvasPattern.setTransform: Argument 1 does not implement interface SVGMatrix."
For pointers to the many other threads on this story, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543.
Edit: My math was off. Thanks to those correcting me.
Fidelity’s Best Investors Are Dead (2020)
That's true, but practically speaking, that's the outcome when for profit company can create a foundation. Kind of like 401k rollovers to an IRA.

The worse scenario doesn't preclude us from addressing less bad scenarios, but I think we should focus more time and effort on that than on reforming the laws around foundations and non-profits, and by we I mean HN readers and the general public.
China starts using anal swabs to test 'high-risk' people for Covid
Disgusting man.
Man I would have closed that position this morning if I were you.
Holy crap.
And in practice, how would that be different from incorporating and selling stocks to those investors, thus raising money now, and then growing in value as the crops are reaped?
Did you forget about AIG and Merrill Lynch? BoA was "strongly encouraged" to buy Merrill. And the Fed just loaned AIG a boatload of money. All the banks got loads of direct (via capital infusions) and indirect support (the "Fed put" on steroids).

The owners of bank equity did fine while the working class got screwed. This is the environment the millenials started their investing opportunities in. That the game is rigged was made explicit early on in most millenials' investing career.
>The system needs to be fixed. You shouldn't be able to short more stock than exists

why? the margin calls will materialize losses when theres no more demand for shorts. what does that have to do with the magnitude of aggregate short position relative to stock?
The government isn't just the executive branch, there's also the legislative. The courts just interpret current laws. It's Congress and the Senate that need to act, but they won't. They are financed by people like Marc Cuban who buy politicians to increase their wealth even further, as seen here.

The complete disregard for public health actually makes me angry. Here's more: https://www.ft.com/content/f0080fe4-c3ad-11e6-9bca-2b93a6856...

A common anthelmintic is somewhere north of 400 dollars in US but in Britain it's something like 5 pounds. Profits for the well-connected, pinworm for those that can't afford it. Pharma markets are funny, of course there is a monopolist, given the size and entry requirements, consequently you need a monopoly buyer. Can the government please wake up and govern?
Figuring out what lines to write, mostly.
Any progress on "Mars vanity projects" directly helps the project of colossal space telescopes. The reason the James Webb Telescope is so expensive is because old spaceships didn't have enough cargo volume to hold the telescope unfolded, so they had to create an incredibly expensive and error-prone unfolding mechanism. SpaceX's Starship is big enough to hold the JWT unfolded - something that would dramatically lower costs on any future telescope of the same size or bigger.